Facebook reportedly testing out new ‘Want’ button
Have you ever ‘Liked’ something on Facebook so bad that you actually ‘Wanted’ it? Facebook is reportedly testing out a new button that will let you ‘Want’ things.
They also report that this tag would work only on things in Facebook listed as products – so you wouldn’t like your friends’ family picture, but you might be able to like that picture of a new sports car.
The world’s largest social network badly needs to ramp up its advertising and business model, as its stock value hovers around the $30 mark – a place it’s been since the initial IPO.
General Motors recently yanked all of its advertising from Facebook, saying the ads don’t actually translate into showroom sales. However, that might change if Facebook users could ‘Want’ their new cars.
The other advantage of a ‘Want’ button is that users could interact with brands and products without actually installing an app – installing something that could potentially open up your data to that advertiser. Instead, a ‘Want’ button would be as obtrusive as the ‘Like’ button.
So, would you like to see the ‘Want’ button rolled out to the public?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
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Posted by: george peters | Jul 6, 2012 4:42:31 PM
like most things on facebook, it will be pushed down the user's throat. just like that stupid timelines garbage, and any improvements they have done scam artists.
e facebook started. they don't ask anyone if they want this or that, they just change it,anytime or anyhow they want. the users don't get a chance to vote on anything. and if facebook says they do, they are blatent liars and scam artists.
not once when i was on facebook, did they ever ask me to vote, or anyone that i know.i had several hundred dollars invested in some of the games on that site, and then they deleted my account, due to some infringement of their very sketchy rules. and was i given a chance to rebuke or reply in my defence, no way. i just got a robot mail, telling me that i was gone from their site.
and i was not the only one, there are about a million of us out here, still trying to get justice, and none coming soon. i hope facebook goes belly up, it would serve them right. REMEMBER THIS PEOPLE, WE MADE THAT STINKHOLE SITE WHAT IT WAS, AND CAN UNMAKE IT JUST AS FAST. am i disgruntled by this and anything else that zuckerburg tries to shove down the throats of it's users, damn right i am, and so should all who uses this misbegotten site from now on. the next one to go,could be any one of you, for no reason, and no rebuttal to find out exactly why. don't bother liking anything, they don't care, and could care less, if you dropped dead, as long as they get your name, to sell to a company other than themselves.trust me here, and i kid you all not. sink facebook sink.
Posted by: me | Jul 6, 2012 5:26:02 PM
bwahahahaha u acualy spent money on shitty FB games
Posted by: Jeremy | Jul 6, 2012 6:17:25 PM
@me
You should have spent money on English classes.
Posted by: Ana | Jul 6, 2012 8:20:32 PM
I would rather have a dislike button, I would use that one all the time
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